Colin Chapman

PATRICK OMEJA - Project Manager

Forest Regeneration

Tyler Bonnell – Ph.D. McGill University – May 2014. Spatial simulations of infectious disease: environment, behaviour, and their interaction in a primate population. Co-Chair with Raja Sengupta. Now at the University of Lethbridge.

Cedric Worman – Ph.D. University of Florida – April 2012. Deceased. Anthropogenic community disturbance: general patterns qualifications, and animal-mediated nutrient transport. Previously at Francis Marion University.

Patrick Omeja – Ph.D. Makerere University – September 2009.    Restoration potential of woody tree species in the degraded forest sites in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

Stacey Hodder – MA McGill University – April 2009. Do colobus monkeys on humanized forest edges exhibit more severe parasite infections than those on non-humanized forest edges?

Tamaini Snaith – Ph.D. McGill University – August 2008. Group size and food competition in red colobus monkeys: Addressing the folivore paradox.

Dennis Twinomugisha – Ph.D. Makerere University – November 2005. Conservation status and determinants of golden monkey (Cercopithecus mitis kandti) abundance in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park.

Nat Seavy – Ph.D. University of Florida – May 2006. Disturbance and community structure.

Thomas Gillespie – Ph.D. University of Florida – May 2004. Effects of human disturbance on primate parasite dynamics. Now at Emory University

Alain Houle – Ph.D. Université du Québec à Montréal – December 2003.                Mécanismes de coexistence chez les primates frugivores du Parc National de Kibale en Ouganda. 

Claudia M. Stickler – MSc. University of Florida – December 2003.  The Effects of Selective Logging on Primate – Habitat Interactions: A Case Study of Redtail Monkeys (Cercopithecus ascanius) in Kibale National Park, Uganda. 

Amy E. Zanne.  – Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Florida – March 2003. Adaptations to heterogeneous habitats: life history characters of trees and shrubs.  Now at George Washington University.

R. Scot Duncan – Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Florida – May 2001. Tropical forest succession: integrating theory and application in forest restoration.

Sophia R. Balcomb – Ph.D. in Zoology, University of Florida – May 2001.  Patterns of seed dispersal at a variety of scales in a tropical forest system: do post-dispersal processes disrupt patterns established by frugivores?

John Paul – Masters in Zoology, University of Florida – May 2001. Patterns of seed dispersal by animals: influence on sapling composition in a tropical forest.

Tom Gillespie – Masters in Zoology, University of Florida – May 2000. Determinants of group size in the red colobus monkey (Procolobus badius):  an evaluation of the generality of the ecological constraints model. 

Daphne Onderdonk – Masters in Zoology, University of Florida – May 1998. Coping with forest fragmentation: the primates of Kibale National Park, Uganda.

Amy Zanne – Masters in Zoology, University of Florida – April 1998. Expediting Indigenous regeneration in African grasslands: plantations and the effects of distance and isolation from seed sources.

R. Scot Duncan – Masters in Zoology, University of Florida – April 1997. Seed dispersal in a degraded agricultural tropical landscape: the first steps towards reforestation.

Christina Allen – Masters, University of Florida (Co-Chair) – February 1997. Frugivores, palms, and conservation in Amazonia.

Lisa Naughton-Treves – Ph.D. University of Florida (Co-Chair) – April 1996. Uneasy neighbors: wildlife and farmers around Kibale National Park.

Virginia Shepherd – Masters in Zoology, University of Florida – April 1996. The role of dung beetles as secondary seed dispersers in Kibale National Park, Uganda.

David Terry – Masters in Science Teaching in Zoology, University of Florida – April 1995.

W. Olupot – Masters in Zoology, Makerere University – June 1993.  Range patterns of gray-cheeked mangabeys (Cercocebus albigena) with special reference to food finding and food availability in Kibale Forest.

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